Thankful List: September 2011

• This toffee wholenut Milka bar
• Work starting this month
• Banana bread
• All my papers finally in to the foreign police
• Time to run in the mornings
• Sudoku puzzles
• Public Slovak courses (for free!)
• Tjamme's visit to City Light
• Sterile milk
• I don't feel lonely
• No business classes on my work schedule
• American music playing in the stores
• Having some direction about which church to attend
• Bathroom sink is unclogged
• The trip to the zoo with Zuzka (and seeing the rhinosaurus)
• Zumba class
• Making friends despite language barriers
• Being under the impression that instant coffee tastes good
• Sunday evening's with tea, cake, and good friends
• The time at the foreign police to talk to Miška and learn more about Slovakia
• I like Bratislava
• I'm not a smoker
• No prescription necessary for a tube of Hydrocortison Léčiva
• All the jars of sauce and bread topping made from the garden produce
• Burčiak
• My jacket
• The excitement of cold, dark weather
• I've been in Europe for 3 months and I'm allowed to stay still longer
• Knowing this Slovak phrase: "Prosím si..."
• All my nice, helpful, patient coworkers
• Having work keys and a code for the printer
• The broken Bankomat that I gave my pin number to didn't do anything to my account
• Finished 2 lesson plans on Saturday
• Delicious yogurt products
• A complete first week of work
• Making more connections around the city
• Renewed my bus pass with little trouble
• The conviction to buy a bus ticket, even if I don't think they'll check,
• Jozef's baptism
• The new plant from Zuzka
• Finished all of Monday's planning before the Monday of my second week
• Instant decaf coffee in the school kitchen
• Miška giving me some nice organizing/teaching supplies that I thought I had to buy for myself
• The laminator
• Inexpensive bread
• The neighbor's motion-sensor light
• Some evergreen trees in our neighborhood
• Finished TWO lesson plans for next week on the Thursday before
• A low number at the foreign police 
• The kind lady who could translate for me at the foreign police
• A Friday Slovak lesson with Simona
• A useful and interesting meeting at work
• The leaves are changing